Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Descriptive Essay


If you could change places with another person for a whole day, who would you change it wth?


 Have you ever thought of that? I had thought about it for a long period of time and I would definitely switch places with Selina Teresa Koerber without any doubt. Selina’s life is very interesting because she is a pretty and gorgeous girl with an awesome personality. She is smart and helpful. She is also German! But, most of all, she has lots of friends around the world who love and care about her. I would love to change places with her and she how she lives her life. I think I would learn a lot from the experience. If someone would give me the choice of switching places with Selina, I would never say no.
My friend Selina is the most beauriful girl in our school. Acting like her would be just marvelous because she is very funny aned spontaneous. She makes lovely jokes, and everybody laughs. Also, she does whatever she wants whenever she wants, that is why she is so spontaneous. She is very umpredictable. I do not do that because I am a bit shy when I an with people I do not know. However, that is nothing like a problem for her. For example, if she is in class and she wants to sing, well, she does it. She does not care about what people say about her. That is, for me, her best cuality.
Selina is also a very intelligent and smart person. She is always exaplains whatever you do not understand. And, if you still do not know how to do it, she will explain it again without loosing her patient. In fact, she does not only help you with your school work, she helps you with anything you need. Even if she does not know how to solve the problem. She will not stop until she obtains the perfect solution for you. Selina is very clever ans she obtains the best grades of our class. Despite being smart, she does not act like she knows everything. She always says that she is stupid to make you feel much better.
Selina is a German girl that is living in China, in the same school as me. For me is very supportive finding an European that understands what I am passing through. She also misses the part of her family that is in Germany as well as her friends there. As you can see, we have a lot of things in commun. However, her idea of life and mine are a bit different. I love how she uses filosofy to see the hardest parts of her life. She has always told me that she understands she is never going to be with er friends for a long period of time because she has friends all over the world. She says it with such a calm, that makes me feel small because I miss them a lot. Selina has friends all over the world, and that is a goal I want to achieve. I do not want to be in the same country all my life. I want to visit the world. 
Selina’s family travels around the world. That is why she has family in Italy and in America. Her family moved and because of that, Selian can speak Italian and English. She has being to Italiy a lot of times. I think it is a beautiful country and I would love to visit it. Selina has also travelled to Florida, where other relatives live. She has had an amazing opportunity of travelling and learning languages. Just last school vacations, she went with her family to Puket. I like her family a lot. Selina has a ten-year old sister whose name is Sarah. Sarah is with us in our school and she is very funny. I havenever had a small sister, because I am the smallest in my family and I do not know how it feels like. Her mom makes delicious German food, and her dad is just amazing.

I want to be Selina most of all because of her wonderful personality. I would have the chance to visit Germany, Italy, and America. My goal is to learn as many languages as I can, and that would be an awesome opportunity. If I was her I would be a smart, pretty and awesome person. Selina and I are alike in many ways. Her life is also as simple as a teenage’s life can be, just like mine. However, Selina and I differ in many other aspects and that is why I want to have the chance of being her and learning from her life.

Autobiography

Be Careful World, I am here to get you!      
 

      My mom couldn’t even have dinner because of me! At 21:30 I came to this world; the most adorable baby was born. The 29th of June, 1998 I started to enjoy life, but just for a few minutes because I started to destroy my mom’s blood, the doctors had to find someone to transfer the blood to me. When they put the blood into my body, I went all yellow like the cartoons because again and again I didn’t recognize it and destroyed every bit that the doctors put in me. Finally, after my fourth day, I recognized one type and went to my new and interesting home. When my sister Lucia first saw me, after waiting nine months of enthusiasm, she got a bit scared. She tells me that she remembers how I looked, with hair in different parts of my head. The doctors had to cut a bit of hair in every part of my head, and with yellow skin. Lucia says that I looked exactly like a clown.

        I was a baby of 3.5 kg and 47 cm tall named Beatriz Zambrano Serrano. I yelled my first word out so everybody could hear me saying, “papaaaa”, which means daddy in Spanish. Time passed and I started walking my first steps In the beach. This caught my parents and my sister by surprise because I was a very good and quiet baby. I was weird too because I did not drink all my drink bottle. My mom found out that it was because it got cold and I wanted meals like completely boiling. Also, I loved the water and so, I jumped into the bathtubs. In the other hand, I was never prepared to go to sleep or have a nap. When I had to sleep, my parents put me into a cradle, and I screamed and screamed. That is when I changed from a good and quiet baby to a naughty baby. My dad told me that, once, he put me on his shoulders, just like he did with my sister, but because I didn’t like it, I vomited on him. I was artistic as a baby, because of the vomiting and because I loved painting and coloring. There were my first hobby.

        Now, I am thirteen years old and I am in China. Of course it is not because I am Chinese, or because my family moved here. It is because I am in China spending from two to three years to learn Chinese. Just like I did with my English, but I only went four months to Ireland instead of several years when I was ten. I go to an International School called QSI in Zhuhai. I live with one of my teachers, Mrs. Chen. Thanks to her I can speak and understand Chinese, but not write nor read. That is why, if it is possible next year, I will go to a Chinese school. 

I love travelling and learning new languages. Right now, I only know three languages very well , Spanish, English and Chinese. I want to learn Italian, German and French. When I am older I want to do a career related with languages , which could be almost everything. My idea of life is that we should enjoy it because it has been given it to us for that reason. I do not think we should complain a lot about what live would it be like if we hadn’t made a decision in the past, because the past is the past. I think you should live the present and the future, and forget about the mistakes committed in the past. Or at least, learn from them, but not get stuck in the past, while living in the present.
I was an adorable Spanish baby who was named Beatriz Zambrano Serrano. I have lots of friends who care about me everywhere, I really miss my Spanish friends because I do not see them, but we in contact, because our friendship will last forever, it does not matter if we are together or not. I love learning languages, travelling and my idea of life is a little bit more different that the other students my age because of the things I have passed and been through.

Persuasive Essay

Just say no


            Would you imagine watching your kids going to work every single day? Take a minute and think of this question, do you really think that it is a good idea to have kids working as if they were adults? It would be a dreadful suggestion because those children would have no education at all. They would only be in 7th or 8th Grade when they get out of school. Is that really good for them? Also, they do not have the maturity enough to handle a job. And, would not they miss their entire childhood? Having 12 and 13 years old working should be a malevolent action.

            The children would not have education because they are only in 7th or 8th Grade. They would have to graduate before those grades. And of course, they would not have the knowledge enough to work. Imagine they are working at a bank, children are never in contact with such a big quatity of money. They would have an enormous probability of losing, or even stealing it. Besides, would you deposit all your savings into children’s hands? I have no doubt I would not commit such a terrible mistake. They did not even go to college, how are they going to work?

            Supposing that children could have the possibility of working being in such low grades, what would happen to all the universities in the world? The universities would have to close. Every single one of them. Tones of people would lose their jobs, professors would have no employment because no one would go to college anymore. Also, what would happen to the high-school teachers? High school’s teachers would also lose their jobs because the students would not go to high school. What would happen to these schools? No one would want to pay for the education if they can work with such a young age and earn money. They would think of the money they make, and most of the population would not be educated at all. What would happen to the child’s future? They would have to spend all their lives doing the same labor. If they want to change jobs because they find out that it is unsuitable for them, they would not have the possibility. No one would ever want to hire a non-educated-forty- year old man. Students should graduate at their age and not before.

            Do you really think that a teenager have the maturity enough to have a job? In school we see every day young girls and boys joking around, playing soccer, laughing… However, we also see that most of the students do not pay attention in classes. You cannot do that while working. You cannot just not pay attention of what you are doing because, it is boring, stressful, or just because you do not feel like it. Students might do that in school, but you must not do that at work. In there, you have to try your best. Do you think that a thirteen-year-old girl in a plane teenage life is going to worry about anything but make-up and clothes? She would think it is too hard to work at a restaurant, and see would quit the second day. And what about boys. at that age, they are only thinking about having fun, would they be able to get up every day at six in the morning to clean the cold and barren streets? Is it safe to have children working? They need responsibility. Responsibility is only acquired as the people grow up. Children cannot change in a day or two, they need time.

These students would have no childhood at all. We would not hear children’s laughter or children playing games with their friends anymore because they would all be too busy working. We would see teenagers dressed up in suits acting like grown-ups when they are really not. Kids ought not to be worrying about money, working in a bank, in a nucleus factory, getting up every day to clean the streets or working in a restaurant eighteen hours a day. Can you imagine twelve-year olds, not even teenagers yet, working eighteen hours a day? Children should be at parks playing around with their friends. They should not be worrying about how much money they earn, taxes, or about saving money for their families.

Students at twelve and thirteen years old must not work. They should be playing around with their friends at parks, learning bit by bit everyday of how to be mature and responsible enough for a proximate future. They ought to go to elementary and middle school, and after to university where they would learn how to be good citizens. There, they would have the chance to enjoy and have fun while learning. Every kid should have a childhood. Would you imagine having missed yours? Seeing all of this reasons of why children must not work, I am glad you are convinced that you must never vote “Yes.” Say no to children losing their childhood, say no to students losing their education. Being able to work at twelve or thirteen years old should be a crime punished with prison!

Monday, March 5, 2012

Informative Essay


Future  Schools:

            Nowadays, what would be our lives be without the technology? It would be impossible to come to school without our flying machines or our clever pencils.  Can you even imagine to really having to come to school instead of staying at home with your virtual teachers?  Would we have to return to old times, in which the technology was not  so advance and all the things were much harder?  All I know is that flying machines, clever pencils and virtual tutors at home are a great advance in education now.

You can come to school in a second with the flying machine! That gives you the  opportunity to go to school in another country so you can learn the language and have  friends all over the world and many other places. If you find any problems in  Australia, Germany, Japan, you can come back in a blink of an eye, just wishing.  Instead of going to boring schools in your country with real teachers.

Another thing that has improved a lot is the C.P (clever pencil) that tells you exactly what you are thinking, but you are not able to express. In the tests, it writes alone so your wrists will not hurt any more. A trick, if you do not know the answer of a question, it will know it. And of course he will help you because that is its function, the   reason of why it was designed. Any subject: Math, Science, Technology, and any other language.  Now I cannot imagine working by myself without my C.P., it would be too hard.

My favorite advance in actual schools does not have to go there if I do not want. Just get up in the morning and have the classes in your house. With a virtual tutor that can be from anywhere you choose. Tutors can not see the students they are teaching so they can wear pajamas, eat or listen to music if that helps them. Their tutors can be from the best university in the world and the only thing you have to do is a test at the end of the year in which you can use your C.P.  My teachers are Spanish, Scottish, American, Italian and Chinese. Students that study at home learn languages quickly because of their teachers. 


In actual days thanks to technology, present schools are a better place for  students.  Does not matter where they go.  Every student can choose whether they want to study at home with their virtual tutors or they want to go to school.  If the students choose the second choice, they can pick going to a school near their house. Or going to a school in another country. They use their flying machines for that, so for example they can study in Michigan and they are living in Japan.  This is also not so difficult because they can have their C.P if they need help with the language, subjects or tests.


Famous person's biography



Dianne do you want me to tell you a story?

Come here!

               
                She recalls that "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. The day of my sister’s birth is her  earliest memory, or her earliest datable memory, anyway.


Joanne Rowling seemed to have a social security life, which then passed into a to multi-millionaire status within five years.  She was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, the  31 July of 1965 .Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling and Anne Rowling, they were both Londoners who worked for the navy. Rowling was educated. She went to Winterbourne and to Wyedean for her secondary school. It was the place she met Sean Harris, to whom Chamber of Secrets is dedicated.

Therefore, Harris  was the first of her  friends to learn to drive and that turquoise and white car meant freedom for her  and no more having to ask her father for lifts, which was the worst thing for her as a teenager. Some of the happiest memories of J. K Rowling teenage years involve zooming off into the darkness in Sean's car. He was the first person with whom she really discussed her serious ambition to be a writer and he was also the only person who thought  Rowling was bound to be a success at it, which meant much more to Joanne than she ever told him at the time.  She passed from telling stories to her sister to really considering being a writer.

Furthermore, not all were happy moments in Joanne’s life. The worst thing for her was her mother becoming ill. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which is a disease of the central nervous system, when she was only fifteen years old.

All in all, she left school in 1983 and went to study at the University of Exeter, on the south coast of England.  After leaving university and while she was in a train with his boyfriend, the idea of Harry Potter came to her head. She was never so excited about writing, not even at the age of six when she created stories for fun. She  began to write 'Philosopher's Stone' that very evening.

Rowling was important because of her work to writing books, the most important and well-known is Harry Potter. By doing this, she gained a big fortune. On another occasion, Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust, which used  its annual budget of £5.1 million to combat poverty and social inequality. The fund also gave to organizations that aid children, one parent families, and multiple sclerosis research.

As a result of this, In 2010 she donated a further £10 million to the center.  For reasons unknown, Scotland, Rowling's country of adoption, has the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the world]

Consequently,  In 2003, Rowling took part in a campaign to establish a national standard of care for MS suffer.

By studying Rowling’s life, I have learned that if you think you can do something and you have encourage people to help you, you may possibly achieve your goal. It is like she did by publishing her first novel. Also, she helped a lot of people by donating money into centers that needed it.

First of all, she became  the leader of One Parent Families having already become their first Ambassador in 2000. Rowling collaborated with Sarah Brown to write a book of children's stories to aid One Parent Families.

Secondly, that people today could learn from studying Rowling’s life so that everybody should help in charity, as she did. She helped people when they needed.

One last message that Rowling’s life sends is that we can fight for our lives.  She showed  this by being strong, even after her mother died. She still fought to make the world  a better place fo us.

We should all be kind, as J.k.Rowling is, and spend our time with others that are more needed than us. We should be strong and fight for our lives, always remembering that “we can do whatever we want to”. That is what she said in an interview a few years after the lost of her mom.
So, we should all follow her.

Folk-Tale

The Magical Fairy:



In a town in Spain, there was a rich family that had ten servants for only the members: the dad, the mom and their daughter Carolina. Carolina was always mean to the servants, especially to the maid called Paula. Carolina laid saying that Paula, the woman maid hit her so, her parents fired her. Paula had a family to feed and she had to make her son go to work in a fabric. Paula died that year and her son had to take care of himself because his mom was his only family.

One day, while Paula’s son, David was going to the fabric, he saw a fairy. First he was very surprised and thought that he was dreaming. David closed his eyes and opened them again, but the fairy did not go anywhere, she was right above him.

“Darling, I am here because I have seen you during your whole life. You have worked really hard and need compensation. You can make three wishes, whatever you want.”

“Anything I want, anything?” asked David.

“Yes, but be careful what you wish for.”

“I know my first wish; I want my mother to be alive.”

“My second wish is a better life for everybody. No poorness, no selfishness, no aggression or fighting and no wars.”

“There is only one wish left for you, darling, think of what you want, very carefully,” said the fairy.

“Umm, well, I want to have a house and food to eat every day of my life.”

When he said his wish, the three were granted. He mother appeared right next to him like she was never gone. People who were fighting stopped; everybody had enough money to live. David and his mother spent all their life and their time to help others, just like the fairy helped David.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

True Identity, Chapter 48th

 Chapter 48 of My Novel:

    "You know how dangerous it is for you to be here? What if Llewellyn finds out that you have gone and the flash drive too?"
    "He already knows the flash drive is missing, or I think so. because he has woken up in the middle of the night and started looking for something. I acted as if I were sleeping. I could not stand being in my room doing nothing while I had the flash drive in my possession. I have to find out what is in here," I say pointing at it.
    "Okay, I understand you. Let´s get this done and you can return to your room as soon as possible." That is what I like most about Clark, he is very understanding with everybody and he is the most helpful person I know.
    "Here it is, can we plug it in your computer. I do not want the hospital to have this information in their computer."
    "But what makes you think that it is not a virus?"
    "I just have to find out, I have the impression that it is something very important."
    "I will trust you."
    The next moments were very tense for me,  it all seemed to happen at a very slow speed. I was starting to get mad. I watched as he put the pen in the hole and then we had to wait for five minutes. I think those were the most stressful minutes of my life. Suddenly, a white bright page appeared on the computer´s screen. I was completely sure it was not a virus until that moment. However, Clark calmed me down saying that he recognized it and it was not a virus. We needed a password though. A password that we did not have.
    "It is very strange, very strange..." says Clark.
    "Why? You said that you recognized it," I said confused.
    "That is why, it is like the programs we make in America."
    "Do you mean...?"
    "Exactly! This flash drive contains the American mafia´s information."
    "That makes no sense, why would Myer want it then?"
    "I know what you are thinking, but you are wrong. He does not want it so he can know the information. He wants it, so the other mafia won´t find out."
    "It must be very important," I say.
    "Why don´t we just call Mr. Val and ask him?"
    Clark is very stupid sometimes, "He will not tell us because he does not want us to find out. Do you understand it? We will have to figure this out by ourselves."
    "Okay! I got it, we have to think like Mr. Val."
    "What do you have to put? Numbers or letters?"
    "It can be any seven letters/ numbers code."
    "Is there a way to guess it?" I ask.
    "We can try everything we think it may be possibility. But... there is no certain way we can really know the password."
    Suddenly, all my hopes and dreams blow out, if Clark thinks it is difficult to find out, no one will be able to figure it out. No one!
     "What are we going to do?" I whisper.
     "I think that Mit might have an idea of the code because he is Mr. Val´s favourite. He might have heard about it...."
    "If he weren’t in comma, of course he could help us. But-"
    "That is my point, don´t forget that Mit is going to be disconnected from the machine that keeps him alive in two weeks. We must find the medicine, which is the most important thing, more important than the flashdrive."
     For some reason his comment annoys me. I think that it is because he is right; I should not be worried about the flash drive. I should be worried about Mit.
    "I will work on this throughout the night if you want me too, but I think you should go to your room now."
    "No, don´t bother about the flash drive, give it back to me. Spend all your time looking for information about the medicine that will likely save Mit. I want to know if there is a safer way to get it besides negotiating with the Chinese. They hate me because I killed his wife."
    "You are not Suzanne now, you are Anne. That is why Llewellyn is helping you remember that!"
    I almost forgot I looked diferent because there are no mirrors in case the patients want to cut themselves. That is kind of true, but will he negotiate with the Italian mafia then?
    "Oh yes! That is true, I almost forgot."
    "So, you do not want me to try and decipher the password?" asks Clark loudly in the middle of the silent computer lab.
    "No! We are going to save Mit, he is more important than whatever information is in here."
    "I knew you were going to say that. Here, I do not want to lose it," he says handing me the pen.
    "What are you going to tell Llewellyn in private?"
    "That you are going to die in two weeks and you need the medicine the Chinese mafia has. He will do the work for you."
   "Try to be convincing." I say while I walk to leave the room.
   "Don´t worry, I am a professional doctor."
   I leave Clark´s floor and go to mine hoping that Llewellyn is sleeping. Dreadfully, I am not that lucky.
    "Where were you, Anne? I was mad when I did not see you, you really scared me," asks Llewellyn desperate. I can see the tiredness in his eyes while he is talking to me, and I do not know how to answer his questions. I cannot just say that I went to the computer lab to find Clark...
    "Are you okay?" asks Llewellyn repeatedly.

Myth

Why do we not have unicorns and dragons?
     A long time ago, when the world was new, gods and goddess made all kinds of animals. They made tiny little ants all the way to enormous and magnificent beautiful dragons. But, there was an evil god that created sheks. Sheks were a type of huge snaked that could fly. They had claws and sharp teeth. They were so evil that they could kill the dragons in a matter of minutes. Dragon's and Shek's instinct made them fight until the death. There were two many sheks to fight, and so the dragons nearly extinct. However, the sheks could not find all the dragons, and started killing the unicorns too. Unicorns were beautiful creatures that did not believe in anything but love and peace. They did not believe in war. But ,when it was about protecting dragons, their fierceness reached very high and they could fie protecting them. The unicorns wanted revenge and so, they fought the sheks. However, the sheks were too powerful for them, and most of the unicorns died fighting.
     The gods felt miserable because of the disappearance of all the dragons and unicorns. The gods were very angry because one god named the Seventh created the sheks. They were horrible creatures who only thought about killing, like the god who created them. In total, there were seven gods, six of them gathered together and kill the sheks that were on Earth, and the evil god Seventh.
     Because of the mistake of a maniac god creating dreadful creatures, beautiful unicorns and magnificent dragons do not exist anymore.

Fable

Asba and Her Courage

    Once upon a time, there was a colony of ants in which there was racism. The queen of ants had a daughter that was left out because she was  daydreaming about going outside the colony. Her name was Asba and she was a teenager ant. She was always complaining:
     "Mom, you keep scaring me about the world and I have never heard anything supportive about the things I want to do. Why do not you let me go outside?
     "Do you want other animals to kill you? You are too small dear. But if that is what you really want to do, go for it! But listen, do not come back saying that it was too scary , because I will say that I said so."
    One week passed an Asba was already to go out of the protection of the colony. When she got outside everything seemed new and scary.
    But then, she realized that she was in a family's garden that was having a party. There was lots of food in the floor. More than what she would have ever dreamed. The next month, she told the other ants what she had discovered. Those were the same ants that one laughed at her. From that moment on, Asba was the most popular and brave ant in the whole colony.

     Moral: If you have the courage enough to try new things and making your wishes come true, it does not matter the size, or person you are.